What's the Difference between Nineteen Eighty-Four the Book and 1984 the Movie?

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Winston Smith	Winston Smith Portrayed by: John Hurt
O'brien	O'Connor Portrayed by: Richard Burton

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Ingsoc’s salute is a clenched fist.	The salute is the crossing of the forearms to make an X.
Party members refer to each other as "Comrade".	They call each other "brother" and "sister".
Winston works at the Records Department.	It is called the Mini-Rec.
The Ministry of Plenty is called the Mini-plenty.	It is named the mini-prod.
Winston and Julia go together to visit O'Brien's private residence in the Victory Mansions. They are looking for information about joining the Brotherhood.	Winston goes alone and it isn't clear that he is looking for information about the Brotherhood.
O'Brien reveals that he is a member of the Brotherhood.	It is not clear.
Eurasia and Eastasia respectively follow the ideologies of Neo-Bolshevism and "Death-Worship".	This isn't mentinoed.
Winston is given an identical briefcase to his own that contains Goldstein's book. This is a pretext for getting the address to O'Brien's apartment.	Winston is at O'Brien's apartment when he is given the book. It is disguised as a Newspeak dictionary.
Winston's spirit is broken, and he submits to his love for Big Brother.	Winston cannot bring himself to love Big Brother, though he was broken, his spirit was too strong.

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